Core Facilities

Animal Use & Care Information

Animal use within the Center is overseen by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.

At Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a variety of state-of-the-art core facilities provide services and technology to our basic and translational research programs. Our goal is to provide the highest quality of scientific technology in rapid turn-around time, while operating in a cost-effective manner. Memorial Sloan Kettering’s core facilities are staffed by research experts in the technologies offered. Education and training is provided in select cores.

The Animal Imaging Core provides investigators with unique capabilities for the noninvasive detection, localization, and characterization of primary and metastatic cancer cells in vivo in small animal models.

The Behavioral Research Methods Core assists clinical and population-based investigators with the design, implementation, and execution of research that involves surveys, interviews, and other behavioral-sciences methods.

The Center of Comparative Medicine and Pathology is an academically oriented, interdisciplinary center that supports the development, characterization, care, and use of animal models at Memorial Sloan Kettering.